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14. David Shepherd wickedly caged mountain beast. (8)

22. ...but no ham for piles of eastenders (previous answer is Tamworth, could mean to remove ham from that) (6,5)

86. Heavy worker leads round following river to the west. (10)

87. Helper who has the edge on short coal miner. (6,6).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Farmer Giles? Cockney rhyming slang for piles?

Herdwick (kind of sheep) is in clue?

Clydesdale? (anagram of leads and Clyde- river in west Scotland?)

Border - edge + Collie(r) - short miner - border collie- helper?

Thanks ab. There's one more I am not sure about.

98. Do nothing Friday but churn for butter maybe. (5,4)

Reverse do 0 F gives food, cream food maybe? I am not convinced.

Dairy ?
Can you help with ---
40. A dunderhead knows how to get Elizabeth to reveal a portcullis. (6) Many thanks ! P

dairy food

I'm also tying myself in knots with 40. The only thing I can think of for 'knows how to' is 'can', and any other letters I want to put in don't fit with it anywhere as far as I can see. I have a weird possible answer that might be a portcullis, but that doesn't involve 'a', 'd', 'under', 'head' or 'dunderhead' so can't be right. Aargh!

I have come up with turkey - another word for dunderhead. Where the portcullis comes in I have no idea!